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The Brighton Volunteer Review: Middlesex Corps in Steyne Gardens, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
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The Brighton Volunteer Review: Middlesex Corps in Steyne Gardens, 1881. 'The Easter Monday field manoeuvres and parade of the Metropolitan Volunteer Corps were favoured with very fine weather...The rendezvous of the different corps, was in the line of garden inclosures, which, commencing in the Old Steyne, extend nearly a mile to the north...There were, altogether, nearly 23,000 men, with thirty-four guns, under the general command of Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar...The attacking force was first assembled at Brighton, and proceeded to occupy its position on the Downs...His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught was in command of the First Division. At half-past nine a gun signal put the attacking force in motion. It occupied the northern inclosures, and moved off, with bands playing, by alternate brigades of the First and Second Divisions, the first going by the Lewes-road and the other by Elm-grove up to the Windmill, and thence by the Drove-road to the rendezvous in front of Falmer village. The defending force took the opposite direction, going from the lower in closures by the Steyne to the Marine-parade'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
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HRM25A43_081
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